Transcultural Philosophy and Its Foundations in Implicate Logic

This article provides a transcultural, transversal investigation. It starts from the philo-sophical problem of knowing non-knowing. In chapters 1 and 2, the first expressions of this problem by Confucius and Socrates are considered. Against this background, new transcultural working concepts are developed. A new key term to be established here is that of an implicate logic. It refers to the reflection of unity of unity and difference and therefore to the very condition of the possibility of (differentiating) thinking as such. In chapters 3 and 4, this train of thought is further developed under the influence of Nico-laus Cusanus, by reflecting on the first chapter of the Daodejing, and in view of important remarks by Niklas Luhmann. In chapter 5, the outcome is related to the idea of transversal reason in the philosophy of Wolfgang Welsch. As the most basic principle of (self -refer-ential) thinking, implicate logic is to be discerned from Aristotelian (or similar traditions of ) logic and Hegelian dialectics-albeit both are being tied to the former's principle in one way or the other. In the end, an introductory outlook of a comprehensive work by the present author provides the starting point to validate the logical foundations of knowing non-knowing as a methodological foundation to further develop the fields of transcultur-al-comparative, trans-comparative, and global philosophy.

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This article provides a transcultural and transversal investigation on the philosophical problem of knowing non-knowing. It develops new transcultural concepts, such as implicate logic, reflecting on the unity of unity and difference and the possibility of thinking. Through the analysis of various philosophers, the article differentiates implicate logic from Aristotelian logic and Hegelian dialectics and explores its role as a methodological foundation for further development in the fields of transcultural-comparative, trans-comparative, and global philosophy.